Natalie Portman Looks Slick in Dior

Vox Lux premiered on the eve of the Golden Globe nominations, which were released today. Natalie and Vox Lux didn’t snag one; admittedly, I don’t know if they were really in contention, and maybe the HFPA just didn’t get to it in time, but it made me miss the days of Variety being a trade paper with crazy overly tortured headlines: “No GoGlo Lo for NaPo,” it could scream. At any rate, if Natalie harbored hopes, there’s always the Oscars. Plus, she looks pretty good. The light is catching the front of the jacket in a way that makes it look like an hourglass shape, and I can’t tell if it’s actually a different material there or just genuinely how it’s reflecting. I also wish slightly for a very thin chain, I think, decorating the décolletage. But her head is glorious with the hot red lip, and while Dior knows its way around a coat dress, I don’t know how often we see a good suit on the red carpet from them. I’ll take it.

As for the Globes: The list of nominations is always long because it’s movies AND film, but there were a lot of surprises. No This Is Us, no Atlanta, no Westworld, and Handmaid’s Tale didn’t get a nod for its second season (though it did get two acting nominations). A Quiet Place and Widows didn’t crack it, nor did The Hate U Give. No song nom for Mary Poppins despite acting nods for both leads, no Ryan Gosling for First Man, and nada for the new Mary, Queen of Scots. I wonder if that, like Vox Lux, just didn’t make the rounds soon enough? But it’s not like Vice did, either, and that got a bunch of love.

However, Black Panther made it in, as did Crazy Rich Asians and Constance Wu, and the three ladies of The Favourite (which is good, because Emma Stone’s Netflix show Maniac got nada). Amy Adams is a double nominee, Julia Roberts and Stephan James got in for Homecoming, and no Ted Danson this time but some love for Kristen Bell. If Beale Street Could Talk got recognized even though Barry Jenkins himself didn’t, and of course A Star Is Born, yawn. It should be a fun night; some of this feels, at least right now, pretty wide open.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Glenn Close, The Wife
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Nicole Kidman, Destroyer
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Rosamund Pike, A Private War

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
Lucas Hedges, Boy Erased
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
John David Washington, BlacKkKlansman

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Christian Bale, Vice
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Poppins Returns
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
Robert Redford, The Old Man & the Gun
John C. Reilly, Stan and Ollie

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Amy Adams, Vice
Claire Foy, First Man
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Mahershala Ali , Green Book
Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful Boy
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell, Vice

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“All the Stars,” Black Panther
“Girl in the Movies,” Dumplin’
“Requiem for a Private War,” A Private War
“Revelation,” Boy Erased
“Shallow,” A Star Is Born

Best Television Series – Drama
The Americans
Bodyguard
Homecoming
Killing Eve
Pose

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Barry
The Good Place
Kidding
The Kominsky Method
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
The Alienist
The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Escape at Dannemora
Sharp Objects
A Very English Scandal

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Amy Adams, Sharp Objects
Patricia Arquette, Escape at Dannemora
Connie Britton, Dirty John
Laura Dern, The Tale
Regina King, Seven Seconds

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Antonio Banderas, Genius: Picasso
Daniel Brühl, The Alienist
Darren Criss, The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Melrose
Hugh Grant, A Very English Scandal

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Caitriona Balfe, Outlander
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale
Sandra Oh, Killing Eve
Julia Roberts, Homecoming
Keri Russell, The Americans

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Kristen Bell, The Good Place
Candice Bergen, Murphy Brown
Alison Brie, GLOW
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Debra Messing, Will & Grace

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Sacha Baron Cohen, Who Is America?
Jim Carrey, Kidding
Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method
Donald Glover, Atlanta
Bill Hader, Barry

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Alex Bornstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Patricia Clarkson, Sharp Objects
Penelope Cruz, The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Thandie Newton, Westworld
Yvonne Strahovski, The Handmaid’s Tale

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Alan Arkin, The Kominsky Method
Kieran Culkin, Succession
Edgar Ramirez, The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Ben Whishaw, A Very English Scandal
Henry Winkler, Barry